Humor

True Tales: Memories that Become Stories


Hello readers, Yesterday evening, I was invited by friends to attend an event called “True Tales” hosted at a local coffee shop.  Occurring every other month, three published authors bring an artifact and recount a true story, in addition to reading excerpts from their newly published or about to be published books. Many of the […]

Eve’s Spare Rib: A New Year’s Feast (a poem)


Resolution Resolve Evolve Even Eve has ribs. Constricted Restricted Roasting roots have yearnings too. Allow images to appear without hindering Duty blocking structure, habit, tradition, moral imperative My acorn is growing hull cracking ribs roots stretching obstinate habits to breaking point Unhappiness so durably built Hard mortar, structurally sound archeologists of the future could chip […]

The Carrot of Hope


Hello readers, Hope is an essential although elusive ingredient to human life.  As children, we may rejoice in the moment more effectively than do adults, but we still emulate and aspire to the power and effectiveness of adulthood. This too is a form of hope.  My grandmother told me when she was about 90 years […]

The Art of Memory


Hello readers, I am fairly sure that all of our minds work  differently, which means more or less that we all live in diverse worlds of our own fabrication.  I once read someone’s blog in which people described in detail how they each perceive the world.  Some individuals are more sensitive to sound, others to words and […]

Language, Intimacy, and Family: How Family Is a Hub of Linguistic Creativity


Hello readers and fellow lovers of writing and language, I was just musing today about how family just might be the place where creative invention in language is most bountiful, secret, and loving.  Living in a special unit, a community separate from the world in some senses, a family group must often modify the common […]

Laughter: Path to Living the Mystery


Dear readers, Thinking about life, love, creativity, and art are some of the things that make me feel very happy.  This morning, as I was shelving holds at my library job, I was thinking about laughter and humor.  I love to laugh, and I think we can all agree that laughter makes us feel as […]